Careful with the accusations of Wall Street's credibility on the subject. The award was decided by a jury of fairly distinguished members of ye olde programming community. And just to be fair, "None of them voted on any entries in which their companies or organizations may have had an interest."
Agreed. Its improving though. I think Java's gaming future on desktops probably lie in that area where you need the ease of deployment of Macromedia Flash, but with the sophistication of a fully developed programming langauge. Its still early, but there are a few java games out there that exploit these strengths, such as Wurm Online (a mmorpg that is multiplatform, uses opengl via jogl and doesn't require an install, just click and play!)
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Careful with the accusations of Wall Street's credibility on the subject. The award was decided by a jury of fairly distinguished members of ye olde programming community. And just to be fair, "None of them voted on any entries in which their companies or organizations may have had an interest."
I'm sure there's a summary of the major changes somewhere, i just can't find it- good hunting
Agreed. Its improving though. I think Java's gaming future on desktops probably lie in that area where you need the ease of deployment of Macromedia Flash, but with the sophistication of a fully developed programming langauge. Its still early, but there are a few java games out there that exploit these strengths, such as Wurm Online (a mmorpg that is multiplatform, uses opengl via jogl and doesn't require an install, just click and play!)
For Mozilla, try the multizilla extension. It also has some miscillaneous tab enchancments that are god like